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14 on 14 off shift calendar 2026
14 on 14 off is the even time roster: fourteen 12 hour shifts, then fourteen days at home. Offshore platforms, mines and remote construction sites run it because flying or sailing people in and out costs real money, so the trip has to be worth making. It is also written 14/14 and called the 2 and 2 swing.
This page lays out the whole of 2026 for a crew whose first swing starts January 1: every day on, every day off, the hours it comes to, and a calendar file you can import in one tap. Night crews on a back to back site work the same dates, so this grid is theirs too.
Suits fly-in fly-out and offshore crews who want half the year at home in one block. Fourteen straight 12 hour shifts away from home is the price.
Quick facts
- Cycle length
- 28 days
- Shifts per cycle
- 14 on, 14 off
- Shift length
- 12 hours
- Hours a week
- 42.1 on average
- Crews for 24/7 cover
- 4
- Full weekends off in 2026
- 26
14 on 14 off (2 and 2), 2026
The grid shows a crew whose cycle starts January 1, 2026; other crews run the same rotation offset by a few days. The 28 day cycle divides evenly into weeks, so the rotation never drifts: whatever weekdays a crew works in January, it works in December. Crews on other phases can see very different weekends. To line the pattern up with your real start date, use the interactive shift pattern visualizer.
The 2026 numbers
Full weekends off
26
Jan 1 crew; all crews: 24.1 on average (13 to 26)
Night shifts
0
183 day shifts
Recovery days
0
no night shifts to sleep off
Longest stretch
14
consecutive shifts
How many hours is 14 on 14 off in 2026?
Worked in full, 14 on 14 off in 2026 comes to 183 shifts of 12 hours: 2,196 hours, an average of 42.1 hours a week across the whole year. These figures assume every scheduled shift is worked: no overtime, no swaps, no sick days, no leave.
Put 14 on 14 off 2026 in your calendar
One file, every shift of the year, ready for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Shifts import with a default time of 7am to 7pm. Edit the times after import if your site runs different hours.
That file is the textbook rotation. Your real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts that no pattern predicts, so photograph it with Lumical and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make Lumical, so read this with that in mind.
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A perfect rotation fits in a calendar file. A real roster does not.
Swaps, overtime, and holiday cover break the pattern. Reading a real roster is what the Lumical app does: photograph it and every shift lands in your calendar, overnights included. We make it, so weigh the recommendation accordingly.
Common questions
What does 2 and 2 mean on a roster?
Two weeks on site, two weeks at home. The shorthand counts weeks on the long rotations, so 2 and 2 is 14 on 14 off and 2 and 1 is 14 on 7 off. 8 and 6 counts days instead of weeks, which is the one that trips people up.
How many days a year do you work on 14 on 14 off in 2026?
183 shifts, which is 2,196 hours at 12 hours each and an average of 42.1 hours a week across the year. Travel days sit on top of that and are not in this calendar.
How many full weekends off does 14 on 14 off give in 2026?
26 for the crew shown here, and 13 to 26 depending on which swing your crew is on. The 28 day cycle divides evenly into weeks, so the answer never drifts: whatever weekends you get in January, you get all year.
Is 14 on 14 off the same as two weeks on two weeks off?
Yes. 14/14, 2 and 2, even time and two weeks on two weeks off all describe this rotation. Sites differ on whether the swing is all days, all nights, or half of each, which changes the shift times but not the calendar.
How many days will you work on 14 on 14 off in 2026?
183 shifts, which comes to 2,196 hours at 12 hours each. That leaves 182 days off. The count moves by a shift or two depending on where your crew sits in the cycle on January 1.
How many crews does 14 on 14 off need to cover 24 hours a day?
4. The cycle runs 28 days with 14 of them worked, so keeping one position filled every day takes 2 crews, and a 12 hours shift needs 2 positions to fill the day.
How do I get this calendar into Apple Calendar?
Download the .ics file on this page and open it on your iPhone or Mac. Apple Calendar offers to add the whole year in one go. That covers the textbook rotation. A real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts, and for that we make Lumical: photograph the roster and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make it, so read that with the obvious bias in mind.